Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (5130 mails)

Xgl on legacy nvidia cards

From:
James Watkins <misterwatto@xxxxxxxxx>

Date:
Mon, 22 May 2006 17:18:01 +0100

Message-id:
<4471E439.1020301@xxxxxxxxx>

Hi all,
Just for a laugh I thought I'd try and get Xgl/compiz going on my old
Riva TNT2. After a lot of faffing about getting the nvidia driver
patched, I managed to start Xgl. Shortly after logging in everything
slows up to a near halt, however, there doesn't seem to be much CPU
activity or excessive memory usage. Bear in mind that I hadn't started
compiz at this point (in fact I couldn't get it going at all but that's
another story) so I wasn't using any of the fancy effects. Essentially
Xgl was struggling to do with hardware acceleration what Xorg was doing
perfectly well before in software.
So, has anyone got an idea why I'm seeing this poor performance, or
failing that, I'm sure there's someone who could clear up my
misunderstanding of how Xgl actually works.